*State-administered death is always a greater horror than any other by
virtue of the methodical reasoning that precedes it. French
philosopher Albert Camus wrote that "capital punishment
is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed,
however calculated, can be compared.*"The
United States' concept of justifiable homicide / Executions in
criminal law stands on the dividing line between an excuse,
justification and an exculpation. In other words, it takes a case that
would otherwise have been a murder or another crime representing
intentional killing, and either excuses or justifies the individual
accused from all criminal liability or treats the accused differently
from other intentional killers."